| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  kw st |
| NOUN: | 1. The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search. 2. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat: the quest for the Holy Grail. 3. Archaic A jury of inquest. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: quest·ed, quest·ing, quests
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To go on a quest. 2. To search for game. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To search for; seek. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English queste, from Old French, ultimately from Latin quaesta, from feminine of *quaestus, obsolete past participle of quaerere, to seek. | | OTHER FORMS: | quest er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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